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This article describes an undergraduate physics module at a university in England that places year 3 student physicists in secondary school classrooms for a semester. This is done as a way of introducing them to the occupation of secondary…

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This is the third series of the lab manuals for virtual teaching of introductory physics classes. This covers fluids, waves, thermodynamics, optics, interference, photoelectric effect, atomic spectra, and radiation concepts. A few of these…

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The main task of an introductory laboratory course is to foster students' manual, conceptual and statistical ability to investigate physical phenomena. Needing very simple apparatus, pendulum experiments are an ideal starting point in our…

Physics Education · Physics 2009-01-09 Ilario Boscolo , Leonardo Gariboldi , Ruth Loewenstein

When education researchers describe newly developed curricular materials, they typically concentrate on the research base behind their design, and the efficacy of the final products, but do not highlight the initial stages of creating the…

Physics Education · Physics 2013-09-04 Charles Baily , Michael Dubson , Steven J. Pollock

The increasing availability of digital tools for education offers significant opportunities to enhance teaching practices and student engagement. This study presents a structured categorization of online educational tools based on their…

Physics Education · Physics 2025-06-23 Marina Babayeva

New technology like the Arduino microcontroller platform presents an opportunity to transform Beyond the First Year (BFY) physics labs to better prepare physics students for work in research labs and beyond. The flexibility, low cost, and…

Physics Education · Physics 2024-03-05 Danny Doucette , Brian D'Urso , Chandralekha Singh

The physics community explores and explains the physical world through a blend of theoretical and experimental studies. The future of physics as a discipline depends on training of students in both the theoretical and experimental aspects…

Physics Education · Physics 2020-02-20 Bethany R. Wilcox , H. J. Lewandowski

This article is a pedagogical review to searches for long-lived particles at the LHC, primarily aimed at experimentalists and theorists seeking to initiate and/or deepen their research in this field. We cover general theory priors and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-12-09 Simon Knapen , Steven Lowette

The objective of our study is to ascertain the present learning behaviors, driving forces, and assessment techniques as perceived by first-year students, and to examine them through the lens of the most recent developments (pandemic, shift…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Manuela Andreea Petrescu , Tudor Dan Mihoc

Undergraduate research has become an essential mode of engaging and retaining students in physics. At Loyola University Chicago, first-year physics students have been participating in the Freshman Projects program for over twenty years,…

Over the last five years, the McGill University Office of Science Education (OSE) has partnered with faculty members from the Department of Physics to form an education research group with the aim of charting the progression of student…

In this manuscript various components of research are listed and briefly discussed. The topics considered in this write-up cover a part of the research methodology paper of Master of Philosophy (M.Phil.) course and Doctor of Philosophy…

General Physics · Physics 2016-04-24 S. Rajasekar , P. Philominathan , V. Chinnathambi

Computational physics is a key part of what it means to do physics in the twenty-first century. However, upper division computational physics remains a largely understudied area. We set out to understand the experiences of students in an…

Physics Education · Physics 2026-03-13 Luke Nearhood , Patti Hamerski

A thoughtful approach to designing and improving labs, particularly at the advanced level, is critical for the effective preparation of physics majors for professional work in industry or graduate school. With that in mind, physics…

Physics Education · Physics 2013-01-21 Benjamin M. Zwickl , Noah Finkelstein , H. J. Lewandowski

Introductory electricity and magnetism lab manual was designed to use with virtual Physics II class. The lab manual consists of experiments on electrostatics, electric potential and energy, current and resistance, DC circuits,…

Physics Education · Physics 2020-12-25 Neel Haldolaarachchige , Kalani Hettiarachchilage

Laboratory courses for upper-division undergraduates often involve sophisticated equipment, relatively small class sizes, and extended hands-on projects. These courses present distinct challenges and opportunities for the physics education…

Physics Education · Physics 2014-07-15 Benjamin Pollard , Noah Finkelstein , H. J. Lewandowski

A detailed bibliography related to physics at the University of Lviv (Leopolis, Lemberg, Lw\'ow) in 18th-19th centuries is presented. Over ninety works of various types are listed with a large share being illustrated by title or starting…

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In order to get ready for physics at the LHC, the CMS experiment has to be set up for data taking. The data have to be well understood before new physics can be investigated. On the other hand, there are standard processes, well known from…

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A set of virtual experiments were designed to use with introductory physics I (analytical and general) class, which covers kinematics, Newton laws, energy, momentum, and rotational dynamics. Virtual experiments were based on video analysis…

Physics Education · Physics 2020-12-29 Neel Haldolaarachchige , Kalani Hettiarachchilage

This book begins with the basic accelerator knowledge required to understand the latter chapters. This is followed by topics from Fermilab accelerator specifics to general accelerator physics concepts. These chapters are accompanied by…

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